Claiming something is “as American as apple pie” is problematic because apple pie is an English creation.
Thanks
to the expansion its steel structural parts, the Eiffel Tower is six inches
taller on hot summer days.
The
dot found above a lowercase i or j is called a tittle.
Sloths
can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.
Most
Muppets are left-handed.
The
shape of Pringles potato chips has a scientific name – hyperbolic paraboloids –
which can be expressed as the equation z=Ax2+By2.
In 1992,
a crate containing 28,000 rubber ducks fell into the Pacific Ocean and spilled
out its contents. These so-called “friendly
floatees” have been drifting ashore in various parts of the world for over 20
years. They have appeared on the beaches
of Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, and Chile.
—Mitchell
Hegman
Source: beano.com
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